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- ↑ Mann, Tony (2011), "History of mathematics and history of science" (PDF), Isis, 102 (3): 518–526, doi:10.1086/661626, PMID 22073776, S2CID 21183237 . Writing about the British Society for the History of Mathematics, Mann writes "Similar bodies include the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Société Canadienne d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques".
- ↑ Levere, Trevor H. (1988), "The History of Science of Canada", The British Journal for the History of Science, 21 (4): 419–425, doi:10.1017/S0007087400025334, PMID 11621688, S2CID 43733934 . From p. 424: "He [May] proposed the formation of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, having in mind that it would serve as a launching pad for the journal; and Historia Mathematica was duly founded."
- ↑ The CSHPM website, retrieved 2014-07-15.
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